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Field then teamed up with an inventor and came up with the play pump -- a children's merry-go-round that pumps clean, safe drinking water from a deep borehole every time the children start to spin. Soup to nuts, the whole operation takes a few hours to install and costs around $7,000.
The float switch is what turns your sump pump on and off in response to the water level in the sump pit. It's like a beach ball that floats on top of the water. When the water rises, the float rises with it. When it gets high enough, a switch inside the float closes and turns on the pump, draining the pit.